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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year. "It took last year for it to be revealed that he wasn't warm and fuzzy," says a Disney executive. "But so what? Who cares about that when the stock is at 60? Warm and fuzzy is nice if you're slippers, but Michael is too smart and ruthless to care if he's liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASY AS ABC | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

...Attend to her reading of this verse: "Any man of mine'll say it fits just right/ When last year's dress is just a little too tight/ And anything I do or say, that'll be O.K./ When I have a bad hair day." The throaty intimacy, the smart selling of each phrase, the whisper of lightly ironic girl talk in "just a little too tight," the clear but not prissy enunciation--these are signs of a true storyteller in song. And since she delivers the whole verse in a single confident breath, Twain gets a free pass into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: VIVA THE DIVAS! | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

Think you're too smart for this one? As if. Be Clueless for awhile, and find out why high school virgins now prefer to be called "hymenally challenged," and why your driving instructor is "the absolute Messiah...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: You're Not Too Smart For Clueless, the Surprise Comedy Hit of the Summer | 8/1/1995 | See Source »

Over the weekend, a Sceptre Pentium computer, a Sony Walkman, and a Haynes Smart 2000 Computer, valued at $4,444, were stolen from a secured office...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: $14K in Thefts Reported | 7/28/1995 | See Source »

British filmmakers are ever mindful of the glory days, nearly a half-century ago, when the Ealing Studios produced a smart series of social comedies. Two of Grant's new films aim for that mixture of nostalgia and satire. The Englishman ... is writer-director Christopher Monger's fable about a Welsh village whose denizens are determined that their local hill (elevation 300 m) be declared a mountain (elevation at least 305 m). Grant, as the English surveyor who is finally seduced by their cause, struts and tut-tuts through his part with authority, but all his patented exertions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: HUGH AND CRY | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

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